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| Someone told me that my pecan tree would take two years to complete its sexual cycle. I thought pecan trees usually had male and female flowers at different times of the same year. Was this person implying that the tree changes sex each year (don't juniper bushes do that?) or that it would take a year for the female flowers to develop into pecans?
I suppose what I'm asking is: (1) since all the male flowers have fallen except three shriveled catkins, should I continue to look for female flowers, or am I wasting time? and (2) should I expect an overlap between male and female phases? |
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- Posted by hybridsage Zone 8 ,Austin,Texas (My Page) on Tue, Jun 9, 09 at 20:10
| First Wild Pecans are monoecious(Both sex flowers occur on same tree). The grafted varieties need two or more tree's for pollination to occur.Because these tree's are wind pollinated.Some pecan tree's have early pollin (before females are receptive)others have late pollin(after Females are receptive) this applies to grafted varieties.Your neighborhood tree's are usually mid season. If you have a grafted tree but no neighboring Pecans you may need to get another variety to ensure good cross-pollination. So if planting a Kiowa(Great for pie making because of higher oil content)you will need a Desireable to pollinate.Hope I explained that well enough./ Art |
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| I think the link I'm providing below will explain it pretty well. See the 'Pollination' section near the middle of the page. ------------------------------------------------------------- |
Here is a link that might be useful: See Pollination section of this link.
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| Oops, somehow my link got messed up. Here's the correct one: |
Here is a link that might be useful: See Pollination section of this link.
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- Posted by joanie_pomseed 8 (My Page) on Thu, Jun 11, 09 at 20:19
| Thanks for your help. I think I know what caused the confusion: the implication was that the tree would take two years to reproduce, and this was a reference to alternate bearing. It had a few pecans last winter (which is why I was sure of cross-pollination--that, and the long catkins on other neighborhood trees :) but I don't know if that means it was an "off" year or the tree was just too young. |
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